by Key Ministry | Jun 10, 2021 | Church Support, Special Needs Ministry
Many young people with learning disabilities do not have adequate preparation for adult life. The reason sometimes is that people mistakenly assume that having learning disabilities means not being able to learn. This is not the case. Rather, it means that they have...
by Key Ministry | Sep 8, 2020 | Mental Health, Special Needs Ministry, Spiritual Development
My husband has advanced dementia. We have had a lot of support from family, friends and our church. People are kind and caring. They want to offer help. I couldn’t manage without them. Everyone I meet is concerned and sympathetic. Many people I meet also want to...
by Lisa Jamieson | Apr 7, 2020 | Coronavirus, Inclusion, Strategies
It will soon be summer once again. For many churches, that means scaling back on programming or pausing services that run strong throughout the rest of the year. For disability ministry leaders, summer can bring mixed emotions including both relief about the...
by Key Ministry | Feb 11, 2020 | Autism, Church Support, Special Needs Ministry
How do we label ourselves? A man, a mother, a teacher? We may use adjectives instead of nouns, words such as fat, tall, poor, successful. Labels can define us. We may use our gender, our job, our position in the family, our ethnicity or our hobbies to present...
by Key Ministry | Apr 29, 2019 | Autism, Living Life Daily, Special Needs Parenting
The phrase that has echoed through my head for the past several months has been interrogate your assumptions. The trick is to notice when I’m acting out of a wrong belief —which is all the time—and to ask myself, ‘Why do you believe that?’...
